Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 23

Fuddermo', my lim's got ter akin, mo' speshully w'en I year Brer Sim an' Brer Dick a snortin' and a skufflin' under de benches like ez dey wuz sorter makin' der way ter my pew.

Who acts: lim · What happens: get, w'en · To what, where: ter akin, mo

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fuddermo	Fuddermo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lim	nmod:poss
2	',	',	PART	_	1 Fuddermo	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lim	nmod:poss
4	lim	lim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	ter	ter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 akin	amod
8	akin	akin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 w'en	punct
10	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'en	nsubj:pass
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 w'en	punct
12	speshully	speshully	ADV	_	13 w'en	advmod
13	w'en	w'en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 got	advcl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 w'en	obj
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'en	obl:unmarked
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 year	appos
17	Sim	Sim	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	flat
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 snortin	det
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Dick	punct
20	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Dick	compound
21	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 snortin	compound
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 snortin	det
23	snortin	snortin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'en	obj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 snortin	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 skufflin	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 skufflin	det
27	skufflin	skufflin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 snortin	conj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 benches	punct
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 benches	case
30	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 benches	amod
31	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 skufflin	nmod
32	like	like	ADP	_	37 makin	case
33	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 makin	amod
34	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wuz	compound
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sorter	compound
36	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makin	compound
37	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 benches	nmod
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 makin	punct
39	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 way	amod
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makin	nmod:unmarked
41	ter	ter	ADP	_	43 pew	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 pew	nmod:poss
43	pew	pew	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 way	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	Fuddermo's lim	ter akin					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer akin=Stimulus
2	w'en	participle · passive		mo			year	speshully property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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